Re: 3G; wireless auth; policies; docs

[Markus Becker <mab comnets uni-bremen de>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> first of all let me thank you for your great work and NetworkManager.
>
> We are currently evaluating NetworkManager and would like to ask some
> questions:
>
> What is the status of support for 3G devices?

Works very nicely for me with Option Fusion+ (:-)) and others. However the 
cards sometimes report bogus DNS server IP addresses, see e.g. 
http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list%40gnome.org/msg08359.html

> How and where are policies (like choose wired over wireless) implemented?

In NetworkManagerPolicy.c: get_device_priority()

> Is it possible to do connect on demand with NetwokManager?
>
> How is the wireless authentication stuff (WEP/WPA/WPA2) handled?
> Are there callbacks to get the keys or any other mechanism?
>
> Is there any kind of documentation apart from the generated spec.html?
> We are especially looking for developer documentation.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Jens-Michael Hoffmann
> _______________________________________________
> NetworkManager-list mailing list
> NetworkManager-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list